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<\/a>Partridge berry at Mt Cuba Center, Greenville, DE<\/p><\/div>\n
Partridge berry (Mitchella repens<\/em>) is cherished for its evergreen foliage, spring flowers and fall-winter colorful berries (USDA Zones 4\u20138). This native groundcover is frequently spotted in moist woodlands along banks of streams and on dry slopes in the\u00a0eastern and central North America as far west as Minnesota and south to northern Texas and Florida.\u00a0This ground hugger is a good addition\u00a0to shade gardens.<\/p>\n Small, four-petalled, tubular\u00a0white flowers\u00a0are\u00a0formed in pairs and are seen spotted above the foliage in mid-spring. Up close, flowers are fragrant; they may re-bloom lightly in fall.\u00a0Broad rounded half-inch bright green leaves form a dense cover year round on the woodland floor. The leaves are paired oppositely on\u00a0stems and have a distinctive pale yellow midrib.<\/p>\n Bright red berries that color and\u00a0ripen in early autumn (in Tennessee) and remain thru winter. Set plants 6-8 inches apart and plan on\u00a01-2 years for this evergreen\u00a0woody vine to fill in.\u00a0This non-climbing vine\u00a0grows barely 2 inches high and creeps tightly\u00a0along the ground. Stems\u00a0grab into\u00a0soil and\u00a0stone crevices\u00a0by adventitious roots.<\/p>\n Grow partridge berry in full or part shade and\u00a0well-drained, acid\u00a0soil. A soil pH range between 4.5 – 5.5 is ideal. It thrives in moist environs and falters in dry woodland soils. Disease and pest problems are rare.<\/p>\n It is usually propagated by cuttings or seed collected. Vines are collected for Christmas decorating.\u00a0Partridge berry is frequently seen growing in a cool humid terrarium. Red berries are edible, rather tasteless, but eaten by birds and other fauna.\u00a0Partridge berry\u00a0grows abundantly in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia where the berries are used to make jam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Partridge berry (Mitchella repens) is cherished for its evergreen foliage, spring flowers and fall-winter colorful berries (USDA Zones 4\u20138). This native groundcover is frequently spotted in moist woodlands along banks of streams and on dry slopes in the\u00a0eastern and central North America as far west as Minnesota and south to northern Texas and Florida.\u00a0This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,657,1144,800,1012,628,637,853,627,791,1306,843,812,630,670,113,455],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8647"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8654,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8647\/revisions\/8654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}